Recent college graduates face the worst job market in decades, with unemployment reaching 5.8%. The “recent-grad gap” – the difference between unemployment rates of young college graduates versus the overall labor force – has hit its lowest point in four decades, indicating college graduates are facing unusual difficulties securing employment. Read more…
English regulators have approved a new law firm that uses AI instead of lawyers to offer services for as little as $2.67, as the technology continues to disrupt industries from finance to accounting. From a report: Garfield AI, which was founded by a former London litigator and a quantum physicist, Read more…
“Our future won’t be handed to us,” says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. “We will build it.” “But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?” says another young voice… The ad goes on to tout the power “to Read more…
Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on infectious disease and immunology, “We’re living in a post-herd-immunity world. I think the measles outbreak proves that. Measles — because it is the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases, the most contagious human disease really — it is the first to come back.” Three Read more…
A majority of Britons may now consider themselves neurodivergent, with conditions such as autism, dyslexia or ADHD, according to a leading psychologist from King’s College London. Professor Francesca Happe, an expert in cognitive neuroscience, said reduced stigma around these conditions has prompted more people to seek medical diagnoses or self-diagnose. Read more…
America’s federal government is a veritable cosmos of information, made up of constellations of databases. The FBI has a facial-recognition apparatus capable of matching people against more than 640 million photos — a database made up of driver’s license and passport photos, as well as mug shots. The Homeland Security Read more…